Farmers Can Now Make 2023 Crop Year Elections, Enroll in Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage Programs
Payments Issuing to Producers of 2021 Crops Triggering Safety-Net Program Payments
USDA Designates 10 Oklahoma Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts.
USDA Accepting Applications to Help Cover Costs of Organic, Transitioning Producers
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2022 – Agricultural producers and handlers who are certified organic, along with producers and handlers who are transitioning to organic production, can now apply for the U.S.
USDA Names Appointees to the Washington Farm Service Agency State Committee
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FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov
Spokane, Wash., March 17, 2023 - The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) today announced appointees who will serve on the Washington USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) state committee.
USDA Designates 5 Minnesota Counties as Contiguous Natural Disaster Areas
This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts.
National Agriculture Day: Fifty Years Later, Farmers Are Growing a Climate for Tomorrow
By Kelly Adkins, State Executive Director for USDA Farm Service Agency; Kristy Oates, State Conservationist for USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service; and Jim Bellmon, Regional Office Director for USDA Risk Management Agency
Availability of Low-Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters – Oklahoma Winter Storm – Feb. 8 to Feb. 20, 2021
Physical loss loans can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, fixtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees and harvested or stored crops and hay.
State: Oklahoma
Triggering Disaster: Winter storm that occurred on Feb. 8 to Feb. 20, 2021
USDA Announces Additional Assistance for Distressed Farmers Facing Financial Risk
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that beginning in April it will provide approximately $123 million in additional, automatic financial assistance for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk, as part of the $3.1 billion to help distressed farm loan borrowers that was provided through Section 22006 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The announcement builds on financial assistance offered to borrowers through the same program in October 2022.